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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 730 · 40 questions
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Engineer's tip (Ask, imagine, plan, create, test, improve): Ask (problem, users, limits) → Imagine (many ideas) → Plan (diagram, materials). Create (build a prototype) → Test (measure) → Improve (fix and retest). It is a loop: after Improve, test again.

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  1. 1.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  2. 2.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) measure its performance
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) dream up possible fixes (c) redesign after testing (d) follow the plan to build
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  12. 12.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) ask who will use it (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  20. 20.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  22. 22.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) find the limits (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) think of wild ideas
  26. 26.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) build the model
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) check it against goals (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  36. 36.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  37. 37.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Plan
  3. measure its performance
  4. Ask
  5. dream up possible fixes
  6. Improve
  7. Ask
  8. Test
  9. Ask
  10. Improve
  11. Imagine
  12. True
  13. Imagine
  14. Plan
  15. Plan
  16. build the model
  17. Create
  18. check it against goals
  19. Ask
  20. False
  21. Create
  22. no, it repeats
  23. Improve
  24. Ask
  25. find the limits
  26. True
  27. Create
  28. define the problem
  29. Plan
  30. Plan
  31. brainstorm many ideas
  32. make a prototype
  33. Imagine
  34. Ask
  35. Imagine
  36. Improve
  37. False
  38. Ask
  39. Test
  40. Plan

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